Trader Joe's "increase[s] the desirability of the neighborhood" for "non-oppressed populations" (unemployment rate, Hispanics)

[freemkt]

Originally Posted by SHABAZZ310

The only stores I really don't want in my neighborhood are Walmart, strip clubs, and liquor stores...

We're talking about homes, not stores. No property owner wants poor people buying 2,500-sf lots in "their" neighborhood.

[urbanlife78]

Originally Posted by freemkt

Two houses on property, government decreed that the houses could not be sold separately i.e. buyer must buy both or neither, I could afford one but not both.

This is standard zoning practice in this country.

Sounds like the land owner didn't do his job and try to get the lot divided into two.

[le roi]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

i guess we can ignore all the complaints about 'food deserts' from now on?

seriously, that's the part of this that blows my mind, how these two arguments can coexist.

[FloridaPirate355]

I don't understand..... Why would it price black people out? It doesn't make any sense.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by FloridaPirate355

I don't understand..... Why would it price black people out? It doesn't make any sense.

They are fighting to keep what little they have left in the neighborhood.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by le roi

seriously, that's the part of this that blows my mind, how these two arguments can coexist.

If you look around and read enough all of our current social issue "crises" have opposing arguments.
Makes you wonder which of the two is real.
Maybe neither and they are both manufactured "issues"…..

[freemkt]

Originally Posted by urbanlife78

Sounds like the land owner didn't do his job and try to get the lot divided into two.

BZZT! Lot could no legally be split in two due to minimum lot size requirements (another standard feature of zoning), i.e. the lot was not large enough to allow a split into two lots each of adequate size.

[freemkt]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

If you look around and read enough all of our current social issue "crises" have opposing arguments.
Makes you wonder which of the two is real.
Maybe neither and they are both manufactured "issues"…..

"The greatest nation on earth cannot continue to drift from one manufactured "issue" to the next."

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by freemkt

"The greatest nation on earth cannot continue to drift from one manufactured "issue" to the next."

I go by Rahm's famous quote:

"Never let a good crisis go to waste"

[urbanlife78]

Originally Posted by freemkt

BZZT! Lot could no legally be split in two due to minimum lot size requirements (another standard feature of zoning), i.e. the lot was not large enough to allow a split into two lots each of adequate size.

Ah yes, that is one of those anti-urban zoning laws. Usually created by suburbanite type people who don't want their city to increase density.